COLWICH, a parish in the southern division of the hundred of PIREHILL, county of STAFFORD, comprising the chapelry of Fradswell, and the-township of Colwich, and containing 1865 inhabitants, of which number, 1646 are in the township of Colwich, 3 miles (N. W. by N.) from Rugeley. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the pec\iliar jurisdiction of the Prebendary of Colwich and Bishop's Itchington in the Cathedral Church of Lichfiel.d, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £6.0. 5., endowed with £235 private benefaction, and £200.royal bounty. The church, dedicated to .St. Michael, is of some antiquity, and contains a monument to the memory of the celebrated navigator, George, Lord Anson, who was interred in the family cemetery at this place, June 14th, 1762. The Staifordshire and Worcestershire canal forms a junction with the Grand Trunk canal near Great Heywood, in this parish. A fair for cattle, called Wolseley Meeting, is held at Wolseley annually on the Wednesday before Mid-Lent Sunday.